Example sentences of "[was/were] play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 32 | I guess the fifties was my favourite period for the blues and so the guys that were making records — most of the Chicago people who were playing in the fifties and who are still around — are the ones that I am always interested in playing with . ’ |
| 33 | Of the fifty teams taking part in the parade , only eight were playing in the four finals , but there was still the prize for the best-turned-out team to be won . |
| 34 | I remember my first-ever game , it was at a place called The Golden Sands Holiday Camp , and they had one snooker table , right next to the miniature railway — it used to be very off-putting when you were playing in the holiday camp competition . |
| 35 | Yvonne , placed transracially and now twenty-four years old , will never forget the day when she and friends were playing in the park and saw a black man passing by . |
| 36 | Whe when you were did n't it happen Mrs that when you were playing in the street one day , you were knocked over by a tram ? |
| 37 | ‘ Getting my own back , ’ Dexter smiled , ‘ for all that bloody opera you were playing in the car today . ’ |
| 38 | Captain Ian Smith and Peter Jones were playing in the Scottish Trial ; both have been selected as replacements for the Calcutta Cup . |
| 39 | The children were playing in the room and they could have found it and I dread to think what may have happened . |
| 40 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 41 | Ignorance was to play into the hands of the enemy ; knowledge through education was power : |
| 42 | as well , had a little do with a little boy called Shane , he decided he wanted to come into the story with a , in his blue car , I explained that on the day of the choose he could either come in and have a story or he was to play with the blue car outside , well he had a fit , he 's rattling the door , anyway , I did n't realize there was this childminder that he had with him not er his mum , cos she came and had her sort of say and things |
| 43 | Its emphasis on careful measurement and exact analysis of the events mediated by receptors was to be justified by the key role this was to play in the subsequent development of novel drugs for the treatment of , for example , angina and hypertension . |
| 44 | A report of the day states , " December the 20th 1892 a novel football match was played between Halling and Snodland , the match was played during the evening under artificial lights , the lights were three Wells lights lent by Mr H. Anderson , more than 300 people assembled to watch the match " . |
| 45 | Amanda , 24 , said : ‘ When my wedding video was played at the reception I just wanted to hide . |
| 46 | I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court . |
| 47 | As for England , although the lute was played at the beginning of the century , the only music for it in any source earlier than c. 1540 consists of a few pieces in the British Library manuscript , Royal App. 58 ( see p. 186 ) , two of which bear titles showing that they were settings of songs by Sir Thomas Wyatt ( ‘ Hevyn and erth ’ ) and Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey ( ‘ In winter 's just return ’ ) . |
| 48 | Blue-and-gold European flags surrounded the stadium , Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony ( adopted as the European anthem ) was played at the opening and closing ceremonies , and the entire arena was at one stage lit up in EEC colours . |
| 49 | Their first league game was played at the beginning of September , at the Glenpatrick Road pitch . |
| 50 | At the request of the family the music of the Small Faces ' Lazy Sunday Afternoon was played at the service . |
| 51 | It was given without scenery , and the music was played on the Wurlitzer theatre organ . |
| 52 | The giant Czech , capped 40 times by his country , pulled out of their recent World Cup qualifier against Romania because it was played on the day before West Ham 's crunch derby at Millwall . |
| 53 | Fortunes changed for Douglas Reyburn golf team when the inter company Buchanan Trophy was played on the 23rd June at Belleisle Golf Course , Ayr . |
| 54 | The marriage game was played for the highest stakes by kings and emperors and counts ; there is no reason to suppose it reached these proportions elsewhere in the social scale . |
| 55 | Although Douglas was eventually acquitted of any offence , his initial conviction and the methods of the police — which included presenting in court what they claimed was a transcript of their tape of his speech , but which was only one third of the length of another tape-recording which was played to the court — led many Free Presbyterians and sympathizers to believe that the whole force of the state was being directed against them . |
| 56 | Film of the incident , captured by two cameras at the ground , was played to the jury . |
| 57 | In a taped interview which was played to the jury , Paul said : ‘ I just thought it was like a little tap on the head and that he would be all right . |
| 58 | No part of the tape of the interview was played to the jury but a full transcript was exhibited and read to them . |
| 59 | That tape was played to the jury . |
| 60 | Many of them wept openly as his favourite music was played to the congregation . |